Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUEROne should use common words to say uncommon things.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts or leave it.
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To be alone is the fate of all great minds – a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.
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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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The world is my idea.
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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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If God made this world, then I would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.
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